When a large volcano erupts, as Mount Spurr appears close to doing about 80 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, it can ...

When the Kīlauea Volcano erupted in May 2018, an enormous amount of ash was released into the atmosphere in a plume nearly ...

When volcanoes like Alaska’s Mount Spurr erupt, the ash can damage people’s lungs, smother crops and kill animals, and the ...

Kilauea ash (top) was deposited where the bloom occurred. Credit: W. Cheah.

The 2018 eruption of Kilauea on Hawaii island sparked the largest open-ocean phytoplankton bloom ever recorded in the North ...

The nutrient-rich deep water rising to the sunlit surface stimulated phytoplankton growth, resulting in an extensive plume of microbes offshore of Hawai'i Island. Volcanic ash can be transported ...